Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

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.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.