Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

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!

Life really is the chance to experience the material world in whatever form desired.

JOY is in the JOurneY, not the destination.

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.