A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.