Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

Every voyage is a new glorious experience.

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.