I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.

Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

Energise your desires utilising your heart energy to create the things that you wish for in your life.

Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this. And yet it is said. It comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.