I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

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.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.