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

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.

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.

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

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

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

The press tend to stick with that the people don't care about foreign policy in their daily lives and aren't concerned about it and so on and so forth. I don't think that's actually true.

Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.