"If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him."

“Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

Source : "The Conquest of Fear". Book by Basil King, Chapter I : Fear And The Life-Principle, § XI, p. 29, 1921.

“Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.”

“You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.”

“I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.”

“Physicality is the basis of performance.”

Source : David Petersen (2007). “The Well-Tempered Body: Expressive Movement for Actors, Improvisers, and Performance Artists”, p.9, David Petersen

“There are no failures - only feedback.”

“You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.”

“All that is beautiful shall abide, All that is base shall die.”