"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

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.

If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want.

Poverty is a curse. Don't call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty.

Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey.

It is hard to dislike someone you know if that person is someone you value.

What I truly believe, I will achieve.

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

I'm never going to retire. I'll die with my boots on.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.