I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends.

Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.

That night I woke up to a strange fact

Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight to discover the truth of a Stranger.

Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had?

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.