One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

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 wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you’re in trouble.

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself.

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.