One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

There is no authority but yourself.

It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Please hear me, you are not alone on this planet hurtling through space, solitude is an illusion, come let me help you, rise up, walk forward, walk tall, walk straight, let nothing stop you.

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

There have been great things that happened to me.

When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves

We can have peace, but if we continue to hold out, we can obtain more.

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.