Buying is profound pleasure.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.

My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.

I'm a liberal and I'm left of Gandhi and I don't like Trump.

Thank God for the theater.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

Nothing's greater in life to see somebody who doesn't have start to value who they are and, as soon as they feel valued, they can change this world too.

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.