Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. Hence if we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

人間にとって最大の危険は、高い目標を設定して達成できないことではなく、低い目標を設定して達成してしまうことだ。