old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

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.

Manipulation is not of God, it is the highest form of sorcery for it enslave the soul to the will of man.....

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.