It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

Taught from their 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.

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

Even if you break with me and crush my heart, I'm never getting back together with Dawn. I know that the world isn't flat now, I'm not going back.

Isolation allows me to think more clearly, and I think out loud sometimes.After all, I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of plagiarism.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique, who is your Beginning and your End.