The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.

Be careful who you share your weakness with. Some people can't wait for the opportunity to use them against you.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.