I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.