I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

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.

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.

I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.

It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening.

His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline.

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.