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

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.

She told me I couldn't just put on a leather jacket and think I was rock'n'roll, I had to live it."Burt about Bex, Book 1 "Making it

Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery in which from time to time he goes to pray a cemetery of bitterness and regret of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.

If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.