nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.
Audrey HepburnMy life isnโt theories and formulae. Itโs part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and Iโve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyoneโฆ from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.
Audrey HepburnI am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
Audrey HepburnIt makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.
Audrey Hepburn