Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

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.

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.

Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.