The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

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.

You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time.

No weight in her pockets and far too much heaviness in her heart.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.

I would rather hurt a man...than love a woman.

If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart; Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.