I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.

O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . .

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

To love is to live on the precipice.

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

God picked you up, saved you and redeemed you, not only because He needs you, but because this present generation also needs you. You represent hope to several thousands of people.

Blame is the coward’s retreat.They think it frees them, but it confines them… Blame is also the coward’s warden.

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House.

In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

Financial freedom is freedom from fear.

See challenges vs. roadblocks.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.