It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, nothing is so expensive as glory

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.