To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.