The less you know, the more you believe.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.