There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

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.

Consistent positive self-talk is unquestionably one of the greatest gifts to one's subconscious mind.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.

Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

If I ever have a family one day, everything else will pale in importance to that.

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

Forget Halloween - Halloween to me is like every day. It's a lifestyle.