I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.

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.

Rockface sheer and imposing, emerges from the sea, reminding us nature makes no allowances.

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

A president cant go to every memorial service.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.