Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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.

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.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

For the devil has no power . . . except in the dark." - Madame Dorothea

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.