To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.