There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

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.

We are citizens of heaven. We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ.

Seeds do not make a sound when growing, but can even reach the sky. Learn from them.

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

I think I learned a really important lesson, as an actress, that hair and make-up is great, but the lack of it is better.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.