Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

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.

Your biggest failure becomes your best teacher.

Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

You are giving up nothing! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

You must know what God is expecting from you in the ministry that He has entrusted to you

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.