"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."

"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death."

"A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world."

"It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?"

"I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars."

"We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."