I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

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.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.

The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

I am a dog person and not a cat person, definitely a dog person.