Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.