Actors are one family over the entire world.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

Everybody wants something.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.