Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

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.

There's a way of listening in the dark that's so intense for girls. You can feel the insides of your ears.

Every Moment of your life is a new Page in your Book. Some Sentences you can’t change, even whole Pages. But you decide how your Book ends.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

There's a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

I just want everyone to know that even though Hogan won at Summerslam I still pinned him 1, 2, 3.

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.