In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.