A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Love grows by service.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

The course you take determines your greatness or failure

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.

A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded.

Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.