Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.
Listening is the essence of anything.
The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.
Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.
For a foreigner, L. A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.
The international repercussions were shattering to some extent - there is no intention to repeat operations of such kind in the future. [Viktor] Yanukovych's electoral victory clearly demonstrated that there are no pro-Russian politicians in the Ukraine, just Ukrainian politicians.
We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)