If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

I never force myself to dance or sing.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.