[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

If it is worth the pain. If it is worth the anguish. Then leave me lying in agony.

Speak so polite with people that your ill wishers become your well wishers.

To question is to grow.

One of the problems with not having gratitude in life is that heaven and earth could be given to one, yet one would still be unhappy.

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.