A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

It isn't ever the world you fight. Always, always, it's yourself.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.