I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short.

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.

Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " 'Cos I had some sense.

Don't be fooled...If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

I'm sure kids had masturbated by sixth grade. I had for sure.

Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.