Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.