We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

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[...].

The fear of God is a fierce faith.

Smoking eats.. YOU.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

Success builds character, failure reveals it.

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.

I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.