war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

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.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

I may be the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean I don't get to boss people around.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.