Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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.

Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up.

Everywhere, I have travel to, I felt loved.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

We are all geniuses when we dream.

I don't know if I have a favorite color.

You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.