The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.