Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

We are born with hope to dream and love to live.

When you fill yourself with inner joy and inner peace, this world becomes peaceful.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Maybe the world would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill animals.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.