It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

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.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Since when, " he asked, "Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?

Had I ever truly been free? Though I wasn’t shipped off to different countries did that make me any less of a prisoner?

People aren't doing whodunits anymore.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

I don't care. I'll start my own group. Rejection from society is what created X-Men!

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.

I don't care whether you're Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God.

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.