Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
…people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving — we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.