For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

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!

You'll... you'll... live your best life today.

The genius is in making the complex simple.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

Nothing was made in Trinidad.

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

Nothing quells anxiety like action!