Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

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.

She looks at me with wide eyes, delight and joy evident, sitting forward, “They are dreaming? You watch dreams? Movie is dream?

Holding you close to my heart makes me feel special. In this moment, I am free to be me.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

America is a nation of immigrants. We have to have a functioning immigration system.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.