“The first option is almost always covered. That's why the play is designed to create multiple opportunities”

“Out of difficulties grow miracles”

“Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed”

“One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all”

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied”

“Hunger makes a thief of any man”