Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

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.

You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.

Sometimes even the smallest of efforts can change someone’s fate entirely.

The sight of a racist mind is too blurred to notice the true beauty of life.

Mammals require three essentials in life, identity, stimulation, and security, and by far the most important of these three psychological cornerstones is identity.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

Closed doors are a test of our faith. Keep moving forward, being your best, living with determination and faith. When you do, you'll see amazing changes all around you.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.