There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

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[...].

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

Gabby, I told you I'd give you space, but I never said I wouldn't fill your space with flowers. Brad

The biggest dog has been a pup.

If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.