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

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.