The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

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!

All that is considered truth and undoubted will sooner or later get into the sub consciousness

We live in a world where terrorism has a more familiar meaning than peace.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

Sandals are made out of rubber, and when lit on fire burn black.

I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.