Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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.

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

I don't think political correctness doesn't make any difference. Once that's in your DNA, you don't pass an ordinance or pass a law or all of the sudden change your DNA.

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.