"A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen."

“The Lord always shows you all the difficulties when He is going to do anything through you.”

“I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.”

“Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.”

Source : '4th Symphony' ('The Inextinguishable', 1916) preface

“Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart....”

“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

“If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.”

“Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.”