Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

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.

You have not accomplished anything significant if no one envies you.

There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

Enough is enough. I'm a champion. Look at me, I'm a champion. I am not a nugget.

Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.