The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

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!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about

...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.