The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

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.

And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.

Life is simple but if you don't put anything into it, you won't get anything out of it.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?