Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write.

People are gonna leave anyway, because those who stay are not people, they are family.

She wore her pain like lingerie, only who loved her enough, got to see it.

Taking someone for granted is same as checking the strength of a boat by making holes in it.

If you trust, I'm the Truth.

We don't lose people, they just slip down like sand through the loop holes we have in ourselves.

There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.

Her today's silence is the unheard shouts from past that you never listened.

Only the wool of present will knit the sweater of memories that will keep you warm in the winter of your life.

It hurts because there is no alternative to Love.

Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us.

You're only as weak as you let yourself become, and you're only as strong as you allow yourself to be.

When the zone calls, you must listen. You never know how long being in the zone lasts.It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.

Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. That's what takes work.

Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Sometimes I struggle to watch stuff that I've done and sometimes I don't, and I'm sure that my judgment is based on whether I feel like I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.

If you can't do it with feeling - don't.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.