I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

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 time is now. What you have to do, do it now.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

There is the potential for your beliefs to be infinite and limitless.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

I don't believe I'm selfish in any way.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.