It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

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!

Luck is made by the making the right choices at the right timing and place.

Don't think it. Do it!

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

Yeah, every team has to look to maximize their revenue.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.