No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

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.

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.