It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

How embarrassing to be human.

Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practice anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.

To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if even that. It's embarrassing. That's all. A little embarrassing to realize that I no longer control my life, that the major decisions have already been made, long before I was conscious that any change was occurring.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?