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.

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.

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.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

If you caress me one more time, you will melt the butter on my toast.

I'm not saying he was, like, crying tears of man pain over the phone, but he sounded upset.

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.

She sat in the silence that resulted in the absence of her words, feeling unburdened but not absolved.

Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.