There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

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.

If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

Over the course of a season, you'll get goals that are good disallowed and you'll get disallowed goals that are good.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!