It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

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.

In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.