Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.

Not all paths offer a vista. But every path offers a lesson.

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

Teach us to care and not to care

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?