One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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 will keep on loving you until eternity comes to make me love you more

Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup’s taste.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.