Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.

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.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.

When we are made right with God, we begin to think right, we begin to talk right, and we begin to act right.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.