Inspiration

While making rounds, a doctor points out an X-ray to a group of medical students.

"As you can see," she says, "the patient limps because his left fibula and tibia are radically arched. Michael, what would you do in a case like this?"

"Well," ponders the student, "I suppose I'd limp too."

At a diner, I was standing in line to pay my bill behind two women who handed the young waitress a credit card.

After swiping the card, she loudly called out to her manager, "Mr. Allen, what do I do if it says 'reject'?"

As the women's faces reddened and customers turned to look, Mr. Allen, also the cook, calmly walked out from the kitchen.

"Well," he answered, "the first thing you do is shout it out loud enough to embarrass the customer, who might have been thinking about leaving you a tip."

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"We must beware in our attitude toward people who are suffering that we do not blunder by imagining our point of view to be the only one."

- Oswald Chambers, in Baffled to Fight Better