A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.