I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

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.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

The ReckoningThe time has come for RetributionA time for Redemption, A time for Forgiveness A time for Renewal, A time to prevailMy love will set you free my darling.Our love, forever bound.-SL Ross

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.