The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

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.

That’s the thing with reality, he said, you can’t repeat it to order, you can’t correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

I wonder who's kissing her now, Wonder who's teaching her how.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.