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.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?