The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

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.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.