We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

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.

You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.

If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.

Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

I put my bullets into the target as if I placed them there by hand.

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.