It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

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.

character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.

The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain

You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

Farewell, fair cruelty.