Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

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.

Increase must become your natural desire

When we would say 'No way, ' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.