I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

We can hear God better, when we shut up faster.

Wonder opens and unravels reality.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.