On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.