The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.