Pain is the root of knowledge.

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.

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

Chess demands total concentration

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

What makes me unique is that, I'm normal.

When you move into a spiritual approach to life you begin to see yourself as connected to everyone and everything, and competition is replaced by something called cooperation.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.