If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
From Tom Stoppard
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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