...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

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’re the only you you get in this life! Show a little appreciation!

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

I will deliver like you've never seen before. I deliver. Whether people like Donald Trump or not, they all say he delivers.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.