How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

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.

Maintain the name you build. It is easier to make a good brand than to maintain a good brand already made. Wining a trophy is not as difficult as defending it.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.