Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

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.

Don’t let either hate or evil conquer you.

You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.