One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

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.

You are the greatest treasure if you are your greatest treasure treasure

Happiness is a dream but as we know dreams coming true

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.