Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

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.

Everything that happens around and within us is a reflection of our thoughts, imaginations, and actions.

the heart aches through nights—the broken places of neglect

I can't watch you die tonight.

Uproot the spirit of reluctancy out of your life and invest the spirit of stickability in this year of 2014.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

I'm afraid I'm elected.