Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Be helpful. When you see the darkness, be the light. When you feel the hatred, be the source of love. In the end love always win.

I looked up and she said, "You have to believe I did everything a reasonable person would do. Maybe I didn't reach my hands into toilet water, but I did everything else I could.

Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.

Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

Don't be distracted by doubters.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.