I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: "Brecht, amputate a leg!", I would reply, "Certainly, Your Excellency!", and cut off the leg. If I was told, "Perform a trepanning!" I opened the man's skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.