Josh Radnor — American Director born on July 29, 1974,

Joshua Thomas "Josh" Radnor is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Ted Mosby on the popular Emmy Award-winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film Happythankyoumoreplease, for which he won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. In 2012, he wrote, directed and starred in his second film, Liberal Arts, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014 he starred as Isaac in the Broadway play Disgraced, which earned a Tony Award for Best Play nomination. Radnor is now working on a show called Mercy Street for PBS, which he is currently filming... (wikipedia)

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.
I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.