The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

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.

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

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

All excellence is equally difficult.

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