We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Gracious words nourish the soul.

It takes more energy to be negative than positive for negativity is a burden carried." EL

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

Individual consciousness is just sickness.