Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

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.

The person who does not meet God’s expectations has no right to expect God’s blessings.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age!

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

My arm hurts all the time now. It hurts right now. It never stops hurting.

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.