I can’t cure anyone. I can’t guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing.

Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.

We are exquisite souls housed in physical bodies.

Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become even more toxic and plundered.

Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering.

As a sufferer of depression for many years, I know the importance of trying to find positive experiences in each day, no matter how small.

I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.

Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.

When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.

We cannot fully heal if we cannot experience gratitude on a daily basis.

When we have loved, that loving part is the best part of any and every day.

The will to dream, the courage to act and the hope to win are the stuffs that make life meaningful! Create the life you wish to live and live it fully!

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.