If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

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.

Shit, I have already read this....

I was about to die

It takes a truly great man to see that he’s been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.

I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us.

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if an obstacle intervenes.