
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live. : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you”, that would suffice.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Who do you like better -- me or Tom Cruise.

We all boil at different degrees.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.

I don't care what people think. people are stupid.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.