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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.