Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

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!

We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.

out of the frying pan and into the fire

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.