Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

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.

What can I say? I'm Irish, I love a good potato.

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

History provides no precise guidelines.

Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

You are what you are. Find a way to live with it.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

A mother's love liberates.