Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur

Some increase happens within us and are not seen by the outside world

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face.

I came out when I was 15 and I was a very active teenager in that regard.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?