And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.

What you make of yourself and your future is entirely up to you.

Customer is a very important key factor that every establishment big or small MUST recognize in other to succeed.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.

The one thing I am most proud of myself is that I know how to keep my cool and not be intimidated - anyone can be beat.

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.