Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The greatest self is self confident.

I rarely take time to feel embarrassed. I just figure it's God keeping me humble, and try not to mess up again.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.