Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Poetry's object is truth.

Our work is never over.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?