"Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.”

“If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.”

“We are the prisoners of ideas.”

“We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.”

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.”

“The only joy in this hard life is serving others.”

“Yet they that know all things but knowThat all this life can give us isA child's laughter, a woman's kiss.”