I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

Chances multiply when you take them.

Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.