Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

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.

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

sametimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them

What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?

Have you found your Christmas spirit yet? he asked as they drove by Broslin Square. The decorations were out of control. "This place would make Liberace feel underdressed.

so you want something complex and contradictory? I could stay here talking to you all day about how the world works when in reality I dont need too.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

If I have all the faith so as to move mountains,but do not have love,then I an nothing.

Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.