Theories then are dangerous things.

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.

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love!

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

A kiss is like a fight, with mouths.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.