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.

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.

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

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job.

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

Hey show some respect. They’re real people with names. Carla and Krissy” He frowned. “Or was it Missy?