Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

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.

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.

I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

Stand up and finish what you started

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

You are not living, you are surviving.

Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.