Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

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[...].

Things do not happen TO you. They happen THROUGH you.You are the co-creator of everything in your reality.

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

Things are not always the way tbey seem to be

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

You Englishmen, ’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.

I want to show the world my humor.

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.