What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

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?

And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.