I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

I'm knocking our pitiful pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young compassionate with the aged sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with say my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world as there is of the outer world.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Many possessions if they do not make a man better are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

It was physically difficult adjusting to wheelchair life but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that in most cases it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy you have reached a very funny area.