The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no 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?

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

I got so sick of my face and the flaws.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.