Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

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.

To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real?

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

I've noticed from my fans that we hide the things that we are facing.

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.