If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care.But when Newton’s applefell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, felltoward the apple as well.

Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

The name of the new religion, " said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Our society has led us to believe that everybody is on the internet these days. Contrary to popular belief everyone is not on social media.

You should not think on a small scale

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Vampires are a genre now.

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.