Humility is attentive patience.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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.