The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

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.

Tell me your story and I will get back your life.

It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.

When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.