To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.