First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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.

My darling, pray daily for me, this is my special request.

The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance!

There are always unfavourable consequences to consuming unnatural foods.

Anyone can do anything because everything is the result of someone.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now.

No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.