We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

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.

Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?

Always believe.

What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.