Attentiveness is the heart of 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.

The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.

You can’t expect to conquer the world in one day, you know. All good things will come in time.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.