I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.

The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.