If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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.

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

When you arrive at the destination, never forget where the journey began.

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.