The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

Like all mothers, mother nature will tuck you safely into bed at night only to come into your room two hours later in a scary mask and threaten you with a nail

I think that different actors bring different qualities to the character.

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.

I am very, very grateful to have the best and most supportive fans ever.

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.