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.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

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

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.