The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.

Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers.

Prayer releases your problems to God.

A circle's unity and never ending smoothness is how we can aim to feel inside. Smooth, gentle, accepted, no rough edges, only love for all parts of our selves.

The secret in any situation is the strength of spirit.

I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.