"Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did."

"When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer."

"Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now."

"The business end of business has never interested me."

"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream."

"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one "must "reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

"Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out."

"True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose"

"I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings."

"Look the world straight in the eye."

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

"The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."

"True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart"

"The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."

"It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more."

"If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."

"...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding."