We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

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.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

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