I don’t know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighborhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate.

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one’s impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.