We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

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.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.

I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.

Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged...and forgiveness destroys the cage.

We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. That's not a seed, any more than you're just a boy.

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.