This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.