You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

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.

Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

The brave are always stubborn

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young).