It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

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.

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

You have to be insane enough to live an insanely beautiful life.

Satan will thrash about in one last burst of evil, hoping to capture as many souls as possible before his inevitable end.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

Generally, it's all of this subconscious stuff. I didn't even know what Lizzobangers was about until it was mastered and I got to listen to it.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

The PC is the LSD of the '90s.