There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.

Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Good or bad I propose to be something great!

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

When you're writing, don't forget to keep your favorite audience in mind--you.

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.