"The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more"

“I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.”

“I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

“There are times to kill and times not to kill. Please bear this in mind with grave consideration.”

“The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family”

Source : "Patrick Dempsey's wife files for divorce after 15 YEARS of marriage and they 'do not have a pre-nup'" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. January 24, 2015.

“Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.”

“Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.”

“you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.”

“Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.”