Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

To have a positive influence on someone's life is a blessing.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.