Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.