To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

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.

The number of ways to live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?

Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

Comfort is definitely important to me, especially when Im running around.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.