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.

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.

Everyone thinks to the extent of their own depravity.

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

Enemies can also be friends.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

I'd like to believe that following one's bliss is a human right.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

If people talk behind your back, it's because you're ahead of them.