We have unfinished personal business I do believe.” He smiled. “And I do love to make you blush.”

Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.

And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style.

My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.

The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.