Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

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.

I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.