“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.”

“Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce”

“Sometimes girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, don't get a fair break. Too many of us have been bred to timidity. That is why those who escape must run, not stroll, toward what they desire. They mustn't look back. They mustn't question their own instincts. And they mustn't listen to the naysayers. If they can only follow their own true course, well then, they will be as renowned for their bravery as the greatest men are.”

“I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.”

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”

“The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.”