Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

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.

Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.

When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone.

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau filling up the small spaces with small things.

No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.

I'm on a shoppin spree to get whatever is in store

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.