Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

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.

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows...

punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am

In the past people only added to their minds. Now people can become complete and live in heaven if they subtract what is in their minds.

I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.

Garden as though you will live forever.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.