I press to my centre, and find there is something there.

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.

I was eating some candy and looked on the wrapper, and it said made from natural and artificial flavors. You could just say flavors.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

Don't follow those who talk, follow those who do.