General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.

We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

Stress is nothing but the fear of change.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot