Keep your body grounded on earth, but keep your consciousness high above the clouds

A great purpose with great commitment can definitely create a great life with great value

Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

If your career doesn’t work out, write a book about it.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out.