Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

New Year's resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life.

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

On April 18, 1980, the last outpost of empire in Africa died. From Rhodesia's ashes rose a country that would take its place among the free nations as Zimbabwe, the last among equals. And men and women leapt to embrace this dream called Zimbabwe.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, 'Yeah, you can do this.' I wanted to direct 'Six Feet Under,' and no, they didn't let me.

Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.

Turn your scars into stars.

That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.