Our goal is to give all Americans front-door access to the truth.

This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

Take a seat, Charlie, ” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.

Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of a thing

Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

I'm smart cause I'm Korean, I'm not so smart cause I'm from the south. They cancel each other out, so I'm even.

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.