To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

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.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.

Let’s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK.