Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

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.

You don't really measure the year until the whole year is done. I'm sure there are some concerned people, including the coaches right now.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

Back in the 80s we were very cautious about steroids.

All my life has been about proving myself.

If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

Reality is not what it used to be.