Learn Through Quotations

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.”

“People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.”

“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”

“If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.”

“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”

“Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.”

“False happiness is like false money, it passes for a long time as well as the true,and serves some ordinary occasions, but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.”

“Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.”

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”

“Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”