An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

The end is where we start from.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.