What we do is what means the most.

We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.

She may not be like everyone else, but neither am I.

I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from any religion but Christianity, because it concerns specifically Christ and the Incarnation, the fact that there has been a unique intervention in history. It’s not a matter in these stories of Do Unto Others. That can be found in any ethical cultural series. It is the fact of the Word made flesh.

So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced.

Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others. I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't.

When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.