Mark Twain Quotes

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

I don't think I'm a chameleon. I can feel where people are coming from, what makes them tick, where they are vulnerable, what makes them feel good about themselves. I get just as much out of it as they do. I love connecting.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.