In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

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.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

Pain is inevitable as it is pareof life as pleasure is.It all depends on how you tackle it either with determination or with frustration

Our body talks to us, not in a language that you speak but the language that you feel

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.