Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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.

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.

I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it.

Angry is ugly

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

Always remain suspicious that God is up to something good.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.