To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

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.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Follow your bliss and let the magic of life happen.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.