The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

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.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Some people make you feel worthless. And then there are those who make you feel like a million dollars. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide who you choose to believe.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Please try not to need me. That’s the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.