Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make you cry. [...] it's about whether you step up. When something hard comes along. A man steps up. He doesn't dodge it or run away from it or try to push it onto someone else. He steps up. Even if it isn't his responsibility. And that's why there are so many guys and so few men. Because stepping up is hard.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost