Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

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[...].

Life is a dilemma between living a lie and speaking one.

Whenever you get such repulsive and destructive thoughts, always remember that there are more people in this world who love you unconditionally than the years of life you have lived.

One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.