The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.