Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

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 past will be your teacher if you learn from it

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.