I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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.

Glory to the the Great God!

When all hope is lost, remember that light can be found even in the deepest of oceans.

Your physical appearance alone could capture their eyes, but might not steal their hearts.

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

If you have fun at your job, I think you're going to be more effective.

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.