I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

…those who are the most confident are often those who don't have any fun.

You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.

Old houses mended Cost little less than new before they're ended.

Within the whispers of love, I found my heart. Within a glimmer from a ray, I found my soul. Within both, I found myself.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world.

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.