We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the...
Vicki Vale: What about *your* family? Bruce Wayne: Well, actually, Alfred is my family. Vicki Vale: You know, this house and all this stuff really doesn't seem like you at all. Bruce Wayne: Some of it is very much me. Some of it isn't.
Senator Pat Geary: I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. You and your whole fucking family. Michael Corleone: We're both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but never think it applies to my family.
Each little update - each individual bit of social information - is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family...
Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.
... scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.
It takes two to have a fight.
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.
That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.
Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.
Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.
It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.