It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

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 problem has a solution. You may not see it in front of you, but, sooner or later, a solution will appear before your eyes.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.

I spend my time on Crimewatch appealing for criminals on the run. Domestic violence is one of the few crimes I can think of where the victim is often forced to go on the run.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

No, no, no to Tallyho.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down