Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.