It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

Every man is his own worst enemy

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Ignorance is not innocence.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

I was born, have lived, and will die free.

He seemed to think that spanking solved problems instead of taking the time to talk about them.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.

My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.