I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The reason I have felt so empty, so lost at times, is because you were missing.

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"