Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

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.

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it.

If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!

Follow me,” Myrnin said. “And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

What we need to do from God's perspective is that we need to reach out and understand each other.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.