I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about anything at any given moment. When you feel like you've arrived somewhere, that's the real problem.

You're constantly guided by the last thing you made.

When people get married, it enhances their relationship and puts strains on it.

Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It’s not your life that is disappointing: it’s your mind.

Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?