We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

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.

There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.

I never get used to the response that people have toward me.

Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.