Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and itthrobs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly.

The truth is considered hatred by those who hate the truth.

I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

I've always been a person who is driven.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.