It took me sixteen years to write.
So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.