The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

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.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

If you can dress as a stormtrooper and go to a laundromat, or wear a sexy cheese gown in public, you might start to find "normal" social interactions a little less daunting.

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.