A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

It actually dawned on me that I don’t fight. I just kill whatever annoys me, and it’s over. (Savitar)

Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.