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There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

If I hear about a tsunami that hit Asia, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and you see it and you hear about it, but you still brush your teeth, still have to go on with your day. But let you get information about one person who you're close to or you're intimate with, it has an almost paralyzing effect.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.