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.

Faith in God is the only force there is.

Wherever there is ‘faith’ without regeneration it has to be that the uncured enmity of the natural man to spiritual things remains.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice.

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

It's not the outer appearance that matters, it's what's inside.

I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.