The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.