Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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.

Acknowledging your blessings makes them proliferate.

It is the church that must proclaim the law out of Zion

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.