Everything beautiful has a mark of 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 prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer.

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.