We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

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.

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

I can go round the clock without sleep.

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.