Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

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.

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

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.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.