Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

Genius is among other minds what the carbuncle is among gemstones

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.

Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.