What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

If someone tells you that you can't do it then it actually means that they can't do it.

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.