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.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

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

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

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