I have preferred chloroform to cancer

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.

Deliver more than you promise and earn the respect and gratitude of the intelligent, the wise, and the honourable.

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.