We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

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.

Like Dinah says, “We can only play the cards we’ve been dealt. It doesn’t do any good to wish about things you can’t change.

To live is to express oneself freely

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.