The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy never with its reason.

It is in our faults and failings not in our virtues that we touch each other and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

The more sympathy you give the less you need.

If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.