I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

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.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Customer complaints need to be addressed effectively.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

It's better to get along with Russia than not.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.