History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

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.

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

If you love somebody set them free- it also works equally well if you hate somebody

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

I think just the music industry sometimes is a very tough business. But still, if it's just something you just love dearly, you really can't just put it down.