A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

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.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.

Big dreams are marathons. Passionate actions are marathons of marathons! Waiters don't deserve it

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.