There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

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.

Patience is a firm faith.

Welcome and embrace closed doors, as they are gateways to new opportunities.

What you need is an idea.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.