Life is about finding . . .what works best for you.

All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of.

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

Don’t forget:Ruts aren’t that much different . . .from graves.

Don’t allow past experiences to be forgotten.Hold them close.

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.

The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . .trump the need to preserve your credit score, orpurchase a new gizmo.

Preparation:allows you to prevent . . .the intensity of the ordeal.

The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes, goals, and hopes of its victims—swallowed by the sea of greed.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

If you aren't willing to have it, you will.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'