My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that believing is nothing. My own heart killed me.

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.

You don't trust yourself then who's going to believe in you?

Sometimes you have to whisper to be heard. Our culture is very much one of "bigging it up," always upping the noise level in order to produce a louder signal.

Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable.

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same.

If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own!

You're not completely alone, you have me! Even if the entire world turns its back on you, you'll still be the strongest as long as you have me!

How do you survive the survivor?

You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Love is the most powerful catalyst. It can change a heart and the world.

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.