our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.

"Am I indecisive?" Can I get back to you on that?

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

Illustrious Predecessor.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Mosquitoes are a great moral force; it forces mankind to wear more clothes that modesty.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.

The best thing you can do is get good at being you.