The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

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?

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality.