A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.