Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

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.

Leadership amongst the crowd is often the one who has the least to gain and the most to offer......-bns

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

I love the new legal immigrants they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Have the #‎ life you want by being fully present to the life you have.

Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!