I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

[Adolf Hitler] had a very definite charm which enthralled most people who got to know him.

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.