The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.

I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?

All men die, but not all men really live.