I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.