You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
To love is to act.
There were no second acts in American lives.
The act of birth is the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
Acting essentially requires feeling.
A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.