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

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.