Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

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.

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.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

I kid Fox News, but they may be a little biased. We had an earthquake here on Monday, and they reported that 'the earth's crust was emboldened by Obama's weakness.'

I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass.