Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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.

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

The world is full of places to which I want to return

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.