Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.
Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.
The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world