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.

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.

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.

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

Take me to your darkest cornersand watch your demonssurrender to mine..

For the loser now Will be later to win

Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

There was no one to understand Me until I created the whole world.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all.

I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.