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.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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!

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

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

How did you die?" "We er....drowned in a bathtub." "All three of you?" "It was a big bathtub.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.