A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul.

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans.

It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.