Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

To receive love is good, but to be loved unconditionally, I don’t know what’s greater than that.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.