Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Humans see what they want to see.

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The real world is where the monsters are.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

Sometimes you have to make choices, and they're imperfect, but they're the only choices you can make and live with yourself.

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.

Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done