Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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.

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.

Those who are equipped will survived. Those who are not will not.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.