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The next time you walk down the sidewalk of a crowded, busy street and see only fixed stares instead of smiles on approaching faces, stop in front of the first show-window mirror and examine your own countenance.  You will most likely discover that it is as frozen and cold as those of the others.  They, too, were staring instead of smiling while eagerly searching for a sign of comradeship.  When you find your-self thinking or saying” “He, or she, is an unfriendly person,” consider well if what you really mean is not this:  “I am being an unfriendly person.” - Rabbi Louis Binstock in The Power of Faith (Prentice-Hall, Inc.)

Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Jacob M. Braude, page 734