Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

You become what you think about all day long.

Never make the first move." - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa)

Where life ends, peace begins!

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still.

every heart has its graveyard.