God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love 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.

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 legend of ‘The One’ had been clear that the connection between a werewolf and his mate could never be denied. The fact that it could be destroyed had never come up in conversation.

Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.