Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.

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.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

God is a necessary evil.

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.