The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

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.

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

The Bible teaches that a man who can control his tongue can control his whole personality.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

I've been operated on 13 times.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

Enjoy yourself -it's later than you think.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

We must become the people we want our children to be.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.