I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

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 man on the rise must always show respect to the man on the decline.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.