Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

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.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

In the end, only the truth will survive.

When frustrated and weary take time to accept that there is no such thing as an insurmountable mountain...You merely have to find the right path...

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

I discovered that running actually gave me both physical and mental clarity. I love it.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.