It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.

Indeed, physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself...

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged...

Once I reveled in a destiny like no other joy I'd known: when the warden - reading my death sentence - wept.

Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs, Confused and fil…