Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

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.

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and determination as the powerful force they are. By using these ideas, over time they will reward you with sparkling success.

When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

People say, 'My phone sucks.' No, it doesn’t! The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.