What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

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 closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

The box is only temporary.