. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

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.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.

When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.