I was still a bit of a delinquent teenager with some of the weakest people in the neighborhood. One day I read this sentence in a comic book. It was as if a stone had hit my brain. Many years have passed so I don’t remember the images or even the title of the publication but the phrase has remained imprinted on me and, since then, I have become more balanced. Those words now are part of my guidelines for how to behave towards both people and animals.