These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

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 strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.