You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over..

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous exa….

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all..

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are ve….

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultiv….

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them..

Yes, Maxon," I whispered. "It’s possible..

I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I ….

You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary..

Bad beginnings, bad endings..

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about….

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them..

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them..

I react emotionally to everything!.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

I'd like to have a go at directing..

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not..

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn..

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives..

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….