The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.