Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.