A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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.

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Without God’s help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

There are two types of relationships: nourishing and toxic. Do not keep the toxic. What interaction does light have with darkness? None!

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.