purpose Quotes

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

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.