"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born February 3, 1909
"All sins are attempts to fill voids." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, Christian mystic, born February 3, 1909
"A mind enclosed in language is in prison." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, Christian mystic, born February 3, 1909
"He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, born February 3, 1909
"Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, Christian mystic, born February 3, 1909
"The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it." — Simone Weil, French philosopher, Christian mystic, died August 24, 1943
"There are now two sorts of countries in the world, those that want to expel the Jews and those that don't want to admit them." — Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli politician, died November 9, 1952
"You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery." — Raquel Welch, American actress, born September 5, 1940
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." — Orson Welles, American actor, born May 6, 1915
"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it." — Orson Welles, American actor, born May 6, 1915
"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them." — Orson Welles, American actor, born May 6, 1915