Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

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.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

The path leading to stability is always opened to the sons of God

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Be phenomenal or be forgotten!

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

People who are good at stand-up, they sort of seem to have to do it. Something within them makes them have to go on the road.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.