Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

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!

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

No!" Amy said. "Dan, you're lucky it was only concussive. You could've wiped out the whole Holt family." "And that would've been bad because...?

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart