We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
Before you can do anything else in the lives of others, you must show them love.
If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.
The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.