Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

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.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

If I were a food, I'd be a Chili because you know.. I'm hot.

I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.