We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

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.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.

I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed.

I visit Fox News every now and again, and it's nice, because the Eye of Mordor is above the building.

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

I've tried it, and I've never been that girl. I'm always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.

Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.