“I stressed the fact that today’s performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday’s performance was already history.”

It’s a game of habit, or repetition. You can’t play one way in practice and another way in a game. It’s a reflex. The game is so quick you don’t have time to think.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

I may not fit into your definition of a perfect woman, Even when I have the power to embrace all my flaws and scars. But I get it. You still fail to recognize that perfection lies in the beauty of so many perfections.

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men’s devotion.

I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.