As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

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.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

I draw inspiration from my travels, so I am always keeping my eye out for what is new in each corner of the country.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!