People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

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.

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

Everyone has a heart, but not everyone listens to another's

If you don’t deal with the past, the past deals with you.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.

My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science . That will be the science of Christianity.

I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)