A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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.

Never despair if you have to start at the bottom

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

I've been very fortunate. I feel very thankful. I've been able to come home and do some fun things and make it exciting for people here at home

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.