"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy." ― Meryl Streep Topic(s): Great More From Meryl Streep "The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become." "I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies." "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials." More In Great "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."― Charles Dickens "I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."― Orson Welles "There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."― George Eliot