Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy.

You carry greatness disguised in tiny potentials.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

J.D. nodded. Yes, yes, fine, thank you. Nice attitude, by the way. Like boss, like secretary.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.