The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.
Our danger is not too few, but too many options. . . to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.
I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight. . . I agree.
In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.