Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

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’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce