if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

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.

Yeah 220, 221 whatever it takes!" Michael Keaton character in "Mr. Mom

It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.