The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

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.

Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!

Those who do not have will always serve those who do.

Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.

I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.

I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.

In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.