"Without the great arts which speak to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”

“Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.”

“I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.”

“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”

“Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.”

“The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.”

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”