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

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

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.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.