I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Writers are the ink of society

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

Self-consciousness is hell.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.