“When my world grows dark I remember: Every light begins with a spark.”

Be still. There are things worth listening for.

Thankful for the rose grateful for its thorns these lessons bloom like weeds from them I am reborn.

I am a island – I am an island so large that though I live here, I know it not.

The moment I am sure that I know is also the moment I cease to grow.

I beg my heart to ask- why not me? A woman and a leader. A writer and a healer.

Let the weight fall all there is to do is be here at all.

I wonder how deep true love can go when you water it daily and let it grow.

My desire for connection is stronger than my desire for perfection.

My heart beats for me, always has, but it waits for you.

The present is a present. Do you open it – or just wish it locked different?

Whatever the weather- the rain, snow or whatever we weather it together.

It is my job to be free – who else’s could it be?

No need to erase no need to explain. The beauty is in the change.

It is just as they said it would be great, and terrible, and on occasion, terribly great. (life)

Let yourself breathe. Let yourself grow. Give all your petals permission to unfold.

How to be a poet – call yourself one and pick up a pen.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Peace begins with a smile.

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.