Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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.

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Love is the most potent instrument of action than anything known to humanity.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.