Love is not consolation, it is light.

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 still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble