The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

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.

The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.

You can also make your flaws work for you.

Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.

Quitters don't win and winners don't quit.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I love working with kids; I find hope in them.

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

See it big, and keep it simple.