The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

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.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too.

The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

In my end is my beginning

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.