I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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.

Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.

And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life

If you are stupid enough to cheat, then definitely dumb enough to get caught.

You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!

There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all beings are governed by a set of perfect laws that have never changed and never will.

It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.