You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

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?

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

A day becomes gloomy if there are no smiles. Smile to light up the world!

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

The grand instructor, time.

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

An unread book is just a block of paper.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.

When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!