I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

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.

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know.

Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.

Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.