At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.

Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

Don't look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and ask, Why not?

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.