The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation

I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

Cool to me is following what you believe in.

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.