Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

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.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

God didn't call me to kill me. He called me to glory and virtue. My body has dropped on His feet to follow me home no more. Who the son of God set free is free indeed.

Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

When things go wrong, simplify.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.