A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.