Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely.

Clear and plain glass is considered cheap while the same glass if tinted with color is considered expensive. that's today's world. It's better to be tinted than being clear.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael.

My last thought in the night end with you and my morning smile is caused by your thought. I wonder if ever life would be so special without your love.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

America is not the world.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.