If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.

If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.