As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen

Peace and satisfaction are the two most expensive things in life. You can never buy them, you can only generate them for yourself, and those around you.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.