Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure.
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.
Eyes – the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face.
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
She had a passionate longing for the garden, the darkness, the pure sky, the stars.
There is no greater sorrow than to know another’s secret when you cannot help them.
I understand that in our work – doesn’t matter whether it’s acting or writing – what’s important isn’t fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it’s the ability to endure.
I feel as if I had been in the world a thousand years, and I trail my life behind me like an endless scarf.
The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.