Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

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 optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love.

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.