Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

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.

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

I don’t know what to tell you, Perry. Life’s hard. Love’s harder

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.