Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.