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.

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

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.