On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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.

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

Everybody's looking for a good time. Don't you know a good time doesn't hurt?

Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.

You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

You have to reinvent to stay fresh, to stay in the game

We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.

Most of us are so focused on what we don't have that we're blinded to what we do have.