Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
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.
The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the creator to suppose that he has a sense of humor.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
