We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

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 we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.

Your skills will aid you to define your brand. Your brand determines who leads you and who you lead.

If you need to know courage then you personally is the courage you discovered by yourself, try harder things and it will show up.

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.

Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.