It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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.

Halt! We are attempting an arrest!”“Yeah, we’re aware, ” Quinn muttered under her breath.

God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.

I'm not denying that he's a terrific guy, but I'm not sure he's terrific for me.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true.