Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

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.

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.

Just when you think you have it all figured out, an epiphany arrives at the higher level of one's consciousness.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

By and large my relations with the US were good.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.