Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

We’re not the worst thing we’ve ever done in our lives, and there’s a tendency to think that we are.

Bob (Robert) Kerrey (born 1943) served the state of Nebraska as Governor and later in the United States Senate.  He was a decorated veteran who served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam era.  He was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1970.