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

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.

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

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you.

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.