Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.