“Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.”
“Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.”
“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.”
“Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.”
“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.”