Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

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.

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

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.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

I want my children to know what I stood for. I want to be remembered as a person who fought injustice. Suzanne Ahn

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

As a chapter closes in your life, And a new one starts for you, May your years be filled with all the things You've been looking forward to!

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.