Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

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.

...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...

But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"

I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.