Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

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

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend