It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life, ’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.

Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place.

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the ‘end-all, ’ and that God’s ability to craft perfect solutions never ends ‘at-all.

First love, " said Ida with a sigh. "That's the one that kills you.

Kindess is a mirror which reflects the beauty of the heart.

Men will always be boys.

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.

Do not go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.