There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

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.

Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.