The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

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.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.

And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.