Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.