With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected

Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

Things don't just happen, people make them happen