"Put out the light."

"Spend and be spent."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where."

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."

"Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world."

"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own."

"Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand."

"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."