Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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.

Children only know what you teach them.

Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.

It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.

I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.