So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it greater understanding growing compassion came to me.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

Acceptance says "True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."

Acceptance says True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblink-ingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

To the stars who listen - and the dreams that are answered.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

I don't give investment advice.

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.