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

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.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

You can't make footprints in the sand of time if you're sitting on your butt, and who wants to make buttprints in the sand of time?

If you look for beauty, you will find it.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

If you tell a child "Don't touch yourself there," they will deal with some kind of sexual problem from then on, to one degree or other.

I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

You don't know you're going to get a 'No' until you ask, and if you don't ask, you've given yourself the No.

I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.