He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

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[...].

I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.

After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.

I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.