The world is God's language to us.

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.

I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.