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

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Heaven's my destination.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

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

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.