Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

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.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it