The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

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[...].

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

While you are serving someone else, God is working out your future

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.

A nation must think before it acts.