Showing 10 of 6504 quotes
I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy. ”
It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition. ”
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. ”
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. ”
With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings. ”
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. ”
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ”
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. ”
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. ”
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ”