I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

The beginning is always today.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

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!

There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.

It doesn't matter where you come from or who you think you are, we're all human beings with beating hearts.

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

It's Axelle's [ Carolyn] concept and she's the one who got the ball rolling. She told a few of us about it, and I brought in Epic Pictures and got it financed.

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.