It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

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

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.