Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

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.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

He glanced at her, musing on the wonder of a beautiful woman with a disagreeable personality.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.