To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

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.

Any situation is new adventure.

Congratulations, Mousey, you’ve managed to insult every marsupial in the country in just under three kilometers.

Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.

Nothing happens without a reason.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

The sign of death is weakness.

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)