Self-respect leads to self-discipline and self-discipline paves a way for respect towards others.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

Listen with the will to learn.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.