Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.