Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.
One should not run on a new road.
Kindness is always fashionable.
A good message will always find a messenger.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
I have never been racist.
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.