The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

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.

You really will be better off in life if you read a lot.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.