Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

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.

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

Truth is commodity in political consumption.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

How embarrassing to be human.

Good manners are never passé.

Great relationships are based on clarity, not mind-reading.

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.