It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

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

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

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

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.