All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.