friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.