Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

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.

I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

[Nancy Reagan] took that career, that obviously mattered to her, and just tucked it away in a box, because she thought, "That's over with now. I'm going to make wifehood my career."

I grow more intense as I age.

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.