A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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.

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.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

We fear something before we hate it

Don't ever let another man call your child daddy.

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

I never say of an operation that it is without danger.

Hatter!" She would have hugged him if she hadn't thought he'd be bothered by the dislay of affection. Pterry good timing." Dodge smiled. "A litte sooner and you would've been perfect.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

The best leaders blend courage with compassion.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.