Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

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 was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.

What If Following Her HeartMeans Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?

Awareness seeped in and brought its friends Pain and Agony for a visit.

Life may dawdle along in minutes but don't be deceived, for it will sprint by in years before you even notice.

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.

Every person faces their own unique challenges and you may not always know what others around you are going through.

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.