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.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness with time.

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.

Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.