Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.