It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

You can’t make a difference if you are not trained in the principles of God

The divine inspiration comes from God.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.