Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.