I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

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.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from America, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

No health care for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're (Pres. Bush) slowly going from being Nixon to Mr. Burns.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier