What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.