The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

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.

The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them

If we forget our story we were doomed to repeat it

I am not confined to the standard of society. I am breaking barriers.

It becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

Out there on the rocks, I feel exceedingly happy.

There's no confirmation process for the staffers that the president puts around him at the White House. Those are the people he chooses to have around him and to listen to.

We're social beasts, and we draw society around us.