After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Everybody listens to me with a focus on my words. This is a mistake. The words are the vehicle to deliver an idea. Always listen to the idea, it's more valid then any words that I can use.

I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.

You can bring changes to your country if you have a victorious mentality

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years well be able to afford to build a home in the country.

Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.