The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

The soul needs more space than the body.

I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Some people see what they want to see.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.