Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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.

There comes a time when a man has to kill his own snakes.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Be the hero of your own life story.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.