The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

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.

Let us be kind. It is the simplest way to touch someone's heart.

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

What you believe is powerful. If you can change what you believe, you can change your life!

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.