To sleep is an act of faith.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.