The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

I am not a full-time politician but a 'sanyasi' who took the path of politics to serve the masses.

Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.

Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.