Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

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.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

Are you okay?" Kelly cried."I shot dinner, " Nick said.Kelly snorted. "Look, Hannibal, you can shoot back if they 're shooting at you, but it's still not okay to eat them afterward.

Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much that he died every night to let her breathe.

At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.

In front of other people it was almost always "Fräulein Braun." Just as [Eva Braun] called him "der Führer," [Adolf Hitler] called her "Fräulein Braun."

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.