If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.

I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.

Create your best life with your consciously chosen thoughts, words, and actions.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.

I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

Find me now. Before someone else does.

Bones smiled. “Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.