God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.

I find it hard to settle into a normal, routine environment.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily...

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

Everybody has flaws, and every country has flaws. But you can still love something even though you know it's been so wrong before, and sometimes is now, and probably will be again.

Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these...

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Every dog is a lion at home.

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but...

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for...

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.