All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

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 easy to accept a deal, but hard to refuse it.

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.