To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.