The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?