The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

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.

Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.

If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?

Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

The world laughs at another man's pain.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

My routine actually stays pretty simple and consistent. Every morning I use the X-Out Wash-In Treatment with warm water in the shower. I towel dry my face, apply a moisturizer-sunscreen, and go!