When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

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[...].

You fulfill your hearts universal desire for love not by accumulating, but by giving.

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

Charity followed the pirate. To salvation or to hell, she would soon find out.

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

My ultimate goal is actually to direct and develop projects. I don't want them to be big projects with a lot of special effects because that's not really what appeals to me.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.