We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

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.

Pity that child who was born near Rouen, His only crime, to arrive deformed.

My religion is kindness. A good mind, a good heart, warm feelings these are the most important things.

If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

An artist must be a reactionary

The heart is where is where the action is

I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.