Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.

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.

I was up all night just to talk to myself about you.

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

The past is not what it was.

I'm in love with hope.

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.