No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

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.

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!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them.

People make their own luck.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

Sam Hellerman is a genius!

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

Never allow anyone else to define your success.

I've been married a couple of times and survived!

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?