Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.

God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.

When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.

We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant.

Terror collided violently with reason.

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.

Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?

I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.