Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

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.

My name is Celaena Sardothien, " she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.

It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.

...definitely believe that, there's got to be a spark to a place...to make it feel like a home...

Isn’t it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.

The object is freedom.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.