It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

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[...].

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.

As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

I guess country music works better in supermarkets.