Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

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 struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.

Don’t let hatred control you, no matter what others do that causes [anger]. You would only become guilty of the same sin that afflicts them, and nothing would be solved.

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

In a world where spiritual confusion is increasing, GodQuest helps bring clarity and conviction. This is a terrific resource for developing a solid foundation for faith.

One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

I don't feel the need to prove myself to others, but to prove myself to myself

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.