I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

If you wish to know the truth, read the holy Scriptures.

Perhaps the most hillarious yet true advice I ever gave on marriage is this one. Don't marry because of Love, marry because of food Love fades, beauty wanes but hungry doesn't

When I think of the word "organic, " I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.