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

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

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.

Only my heart can see your love and only my soul can feel your touch.

Happiness is nothing but a blissful feeling that can only be activated when positive thoughts and beliefs are constantly dwelling in one's mind.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

What happened? Satan was busy?