All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.