Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

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.

Go chase your dreams. Give it a try. And see how far you can go.

I was about to run, possibly fight, definitely scream...

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.