At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

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.

He lifted himself out of the darkness of his fears, into a bright new world of possibility.

Words define you.

I explained it loudand clear. What part of "meow"don't you understand?

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.