Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Health is the ability to realize our avowed and unavowed dreams.

A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.

The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed!

A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.

I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.