The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

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.

Everyone starts to think they are ‘Superman’ from the moment they know their bad time has turned into the best.

Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future

I’d seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many.

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened.

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.