The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

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.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.