Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

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 city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

There is a big difference between just learning something, and actually LIVING what you learn.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.