Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

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 can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.

Surround yourself with positive people who ignite your energy and spirit.

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.

Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.