Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

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 the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.

True oneness is found in quiet meditation with nature.

But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a boy's life could still matter to himself.

Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path.

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

I have been driven demented in my career.

Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.

The world has far too much morality.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.