If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

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.

Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon.

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

We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.