If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it. It will make you a person in your own right.
I believe with [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] that dramatic poetry is man's greatest achievement on earth so far, and I believe with the early [George Bernard Shaw] that the theatre is essentially a cathedral of the spirit, devoted to the exaltation of men and boasting an apostolic succession of inspired high poets which extends further into the past than the Christian line of St. Peter.