We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

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 feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

The balance message is that churches are to teach people the miracle workers themselves.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a crowd was laughing at it.

Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.