The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

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.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.

Do animals understand the concept of dreams or do they think they enter another dimension when they get tired?

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.