Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.

It’s because our friendships – female friendships are just a hop to our sisterhood, and sisterhood can be a very powerful force, to give the world … the things that humans desperately need

BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW

It comes back all at once: a woman on a beach, a tree, a wind that calms, a rain that cleanses, but does not wet.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.