In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

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.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Your best day can always become a great day. Your attitude solely depends on this.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.

and the bananas are overdone.

I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.