But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.

Vain until the bitter end.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

A glance at Christ will save, but it is the gazing at Christ that sanctifies.

Feed a fish a cat a day