Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana
The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana
Before I do a play I say that I hope its going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. Its like a drug. – Isabelle Huppert