There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

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'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

Mend it, fix it, make do, or do without.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.