Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

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.

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.

I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

when the presence is like thunderstorm, the absence prevail deep dark silence.

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

I love performing. There is an ego in me that loves to be in front of people.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

I feel better if I exercise and eat healthily.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.