The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

Don't play what's there play what's not there.

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

Help yourself by helping others.

I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.