“Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.”
John Gotti
“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”
Oscar Wilde
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.”
“We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”
Albert Schweitzer
“A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
Albert Einstein
“Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.”
P. J. O'Rourke
