If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

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[...].

The sky is only the limit if you have not set your eyes on reaching the stars.

…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have!

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.