Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Were here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.