We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

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.

Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

I’m a man of words, yet you rob me of them every single time.

The glory of God is in man fully alive.

I don't get to shoot anybody. That kind of sucks.

There's a ton of talent in this country. Some just need to be given a shot.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

To be honest, if I had to pick somebody to be related to in sport, who's better than Lance Armstrong with what he's done for the sport and with his cancer foundation?

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

Nothing happens without personal transformation.