Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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.

The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.

I'm a very goal-oriented person.

And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.