Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.