Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

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.

There can be no belief if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

God always keeps His promises.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.