We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

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!

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.