Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Every man must nurture is spiritual soul daily.

The way you treat others determines the way others treat you

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

To create something you must be something.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

Since being 17, I can honestly say I've only been ill twice on drink. I stop when I feel happy, so I don't throw up.

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.