A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

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 Holy Spirit can rejuvenate a tired Christian, captivate an indifferent believer, and empower a dry church.

A voracious gambler does not gamble until he wins, but until he loses everything, and a smart one knows when to quit.

When you observe rather than react, you reclaim your power.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

I'm a complete coward in real life.

I'll play until my knees fall off.

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought.