The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

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 know, I'm not perfect, I'm not too good, I'm an average person in everything but I also know that I'm real. And really that's enough for me and I'm very happy with it. :)

The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

I think beauty is an expression of love.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.