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

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

My holy of holies is the human body.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.