Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

The paradox of education is that any man only educated by others is an uneducated man without self-education you cannot be educated one in strict sense of this term.

Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?