If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

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.

The main reason of fear of failure lies in people’s being unaware of the impact of misfortune on achieving success

Patience endurance define the attractiveness of life.

Fool me once, shame on youfool me twice, shame on mefool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.

Ich kann nicht mehr (I can do no more).

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.