Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.