Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.