Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

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.

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

Imperialism means raping other nations

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

When you feel helpless, help someone.

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.