I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

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.

When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Discipline is the bedrock of character.

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

Don't worry about your platform; focus on your impact.