A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.

There is sanctity in knowing, being, wanting, feeling all of everything for you.

She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.