Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.

Positive thinking is the best gift that you can give to your mind, and the best part of it all, is that it is absolutely free.

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

The best of it all is, God is with us.

Dedicated to my brother Richard with all my heart.

In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.

Taking care of my parents is one of the things that I want to do, just give them some of the things that we never had a chance to have. It's all about remembering where I came fromt.

I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.