I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

That is — your friend?" "Philtatos, " Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.

Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.