To PITY DISTRESS is but HUMAN; to RELIEVE it is Godlike.

Who among us has the STRENGTH to oppose petty EGOISM, those petty good FEELINGS, PITY and REMORSE?

When the severity of the LAW is to be softened, let PITY, not bribes, be the MOTIVE.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low TOLERANCE for BOREDOM, and I find that comes in handy with my WRITING. If I GET BORED writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

What a PITY, when Christopher Columbus DISCOVERED America, that he ever mentioned it.

War continues to DIVIDE PEOPLE, to CHANGE them FOREVER, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

I NEVER WANTED ANYONE's PITY.