An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind again ? I've decided that's how I'm going to quit drinking. One-at-a-time.

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.

Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.