It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness however small is ever wasted.

Newspaper people once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun have of late lost all their gaiety and small wonder.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Yes well I really hope I can make a difference even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days and it was really fun to do but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

When you're young you want to make every kind of film: musicals Westerns horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

For all their current prestige Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still small voice of God in their own hearts.