The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

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.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

Some times it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other women.