A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

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.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history

Men touch their horses to calm them, ” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

He was Will, in all his perfect imperfection; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had.

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

I love the figure to get across what I feel.

I love Goodfellows and I love Nick Palleggi, but no, it's The Godfather, 1 and 2.

We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.