Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

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.

#passioninspirecreate, this is my mantra! Passion inspires creativity!

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.