I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

Anxiety and stress derive from fear and self-doubt.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.

The People, when they start to applaud you and support, that means a lot

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn't respect that.

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.