Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering

You are not mad. You are recovering from trauma. Mad people abused you,

Let the beauty radiate from inside your heart to the outside world.

Every morning, look in the mirror and affirm positive words into your life.

Oftentimes, the most important decisions are the most difficult to make - for, your future, and the future of the generations that come after you, hinges on the outcome of those decisions.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.