Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

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.

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.

If you gotta label me, label me proud.

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.