Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

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.

A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode, but you just don't know when.

You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.