Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

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!

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."--Mike Mankoff

An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.

True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.