The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography.

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.