... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least.