But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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.

Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.

No good story is quite true.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

I'm afraid of flying.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

I'm a grandfather now.

Islam is the religion of peace. We say that jokingly. That's actually the position of the US government. It's rooted in political correctness and fear and a number of other convoluted things.

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people