Mandy Patinkin Quotes

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

I'm trying to communicate with other people about humanity and stuff, man!

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

People don’t care what you know until they know that you care.

If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

I've found throughout life that people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

When we're talking about friendships, generosity and fairness and equanimity and sharing and all those things are super-important to me.

I needed our fans to know they're loved and accepted, and fear isn't the way to go.

When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They'd hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.