Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?