Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

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.

There is no art without artist, try to paint your future under God's control.

Why would we need music if our lives were exactly as we wanted them to be?

Why does she have wings?'So she can fly.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.