It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

I have not encouraged talk about man’s holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man’s right to have it.

This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

Enter to learn; depart to serve.