I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"
It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.
I love to read aloud.
When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense. " There's a lot more intuition and gut involved.