Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you’re free.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Many Christians live in a prison created by their own disobedience of Biblical Requirements.

Babies are born without knee-caps.

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.