Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

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 want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

Your wedding will not be what you think it is going to be, no matter what you think it is going to be.

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?