If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. One can advise comfortably from a safe port. To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. Don't mistake activity for achievement. To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. One can advise comfortably from a safe port. There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.