Val Quotes

Laugh to be refreshed, discover to be surprised, accept and celebrate differences to be happy

Anyone can conquer anything, but the conquest of self frees the ego, and rewards one with limitless boundaries

Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to same destination

Believe in miracles as if there's no work, but work as if there are no miracles. When miracles and hard work come together success is certain.

Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth

Most sincere answers are beyond words.

Let fear or doubt be your indicator that you have disconnected with your spirit. Be honest, waste no time, reconnect and you'll master your life, because there're no negatives within your spirit.

Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul

Words matter, choose the words you use to describe yourself carefully, make sure they reflect your desire. By our words we ask from God and command the Universe. Both always deliver what we ask

Don't mind what people say about youthe most important thing is what you believe you are.

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

New projects are interesting when goals are grounded by the hunger to discover and integrate. The elusive are made concrete in such ways

We tossed away the horror formula right from the beginning.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.

Your actions may not directly define the kind of person you are but the words that come out your mouth surely will.

I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?

Tingling fingers, morning birds, rain splatters on window pane, journals of fading escapades and laughter...

The mind is a poetic meadow for reification, where dark and light things are created

We are all given equal opportunity to learn new things. We just have to be determined and persistent.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

Not like others? You may be inspired differently. Be bold, step out, follow YOUR intuition, no matter how sedate or impossible it may appear

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.

To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.

Live in moments that consume your heart and mind, but be distracted by the music from the leaves, birds, wind, rain, sun and people

I'm a female Fe= ironMale= manTherefore I am iron man

Day dreaming is actually research for the next book.

We have to believe in us. We're the miracle of modern and changing times. Share your talents and gift, inspire others and be inspired

Shed the yesteryears, embrace the present as a gift and the future as a possibility

Just because you're alive doesn't mean you're living.

Filmmaking is akin to writing on water.

When one's craft is rooted in strong relationship, he or she lures the into becoming a part of the show.