Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

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.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Long only for what you have.

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

It's hard to stay on purpose if we don't know what our purpose is.