It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

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.

Every action either teaches you or blesses you.

He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.

The True Seeker must, before all else, cleanse his heart.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.