What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

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?

I am the happiest soul.

You can only depend on one person and that is you.

When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.

I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.