The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

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.

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

We're all just wandering souls searching for a heart to call home...

The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.