If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

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.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.

You should have no fear from dying because it's there no matter what.

Im one of those people who think I can learn something from everybody.

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.

Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?

No emotion is the final one.

To Americans religious freedom is sacred.

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.