Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

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.

I don't desire to be intelligent, but I do desire to be loving and kind.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.