Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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.

Genes are overrated...Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym floor at 6 am. Its you as a person

Smile while you still have teeth.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.

Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

Early in my term I will also be requesting that all NATO nations promptly pay their bills, which many are not now doing.

Sean looks at me then, his eyes bright, in a way that makes me feel out of sorts. I glare back.

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.