I'd rather be the one making mistakes than the one laughing at someone making mistakes, for that laughing person is a wimp." ~ Denise Mansfield Bradberry.

Set a goal. A personal goal. Then achieve it. Forget about what others say. Their opinion does not count. Just do it.

Consistently sporadic and sporadically consistent. That's me.

We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

God is looking for sons to send to the world of business to manage it for him.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

You're a mouse studying to be a rat.