And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

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.

...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

I desire the world - therefore I have it.

Happiness makes people beautiful

What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

Biggest obstacle to learning is thinking you already know.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.