the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.