No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

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