No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Even if you perform with a great choreography, or a part of a great group, I believe you can’t imitate people’s aura.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.