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

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

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

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.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.