The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
From William Ralph Inge
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
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