"They won't let me ... I can't..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.”

“It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.”

“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”

“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.”

“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.”

“Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

“The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.”

“[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.”

“Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.”