Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.