Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

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 ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

I think Democrats are complacent. They think that Russia is going to save us. Bob Mueller is going to come in with a report.

I wear my clothes, my clothes don't wear me.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is