You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

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.

Be the woman who is remembered for living life to its fullest!

It is bad enough when rich Christians show little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.

If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.