A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.