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

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

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

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

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

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

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.