I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

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

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

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?