"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."  --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat."  --F. Scott Fitzgerald

"When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love."  --Franz Schubert

“Hitler did not kill millions of people, millions were complacent enough to allow it to happen.”  -- Rwandan genocide memorial in essence

"These white people think this country belongs to them - they don't realize that they are only in charge right now because there's more of them than there are of us. The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedly-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians."  --Anna Mae Pictou

“I promised myself that when I was strong, I would fight everyone who was mean to the poor, whether they were kings or not.”  --Josephine Baker

"I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, "Devil, yesterday I broke wind to. Have you written it down on your list?"  --Martin Luther

"In the imagination of the simple patriot the nation is not a society but Society. Though its values are relative they appear, from his naïve perspective, to be absolute . . . . The nation is always endowed with an aura of the sacred, which is one reason why religions, which claim universality, are so easily captured and tamed by national sentiment, religion and patriotism merging in the process."  --Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society, 1936:96–97

"Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow."  --River Phoenix 

"Not all of us get to live out our dreams or reach the goals we've worked so hard for, but every day life is going to give you the chance to BE the person you've always dreamed of being - brave, kind, noble, just, empathetic, heroic. That's something neither life nor circumstance can ever deny you."  -- C. Robert Cargill

“We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are. Where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We are kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people, find out what makes them tick, what they care about. For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. If it’s a great movie, it lets you understand a little bit more about what it’s like to be a different gender, a different race, a different age, a different economic class, a different nationality, a different profession, different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us. And that, to me, is the most noble thing that good movies can do and it’s a reason to encourage them and to support them and to go to them.”  --Roger Ebert 

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the (Nuremberg) defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”  --G. M. Gilbert, the psychologist who studied the Nazi defendants on trial at Nuremberg