I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

His lies flowed eloquently like honey flowing from a hot spoon

We can't abolish prejudice through laws.

I set out to work hard, not to get rich.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.