Man alone can enslave man.

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.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

we all are right and wrong at the same time according to our view.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.