When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.

Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.

Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.

True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.

Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

Out of the decisions that we make in life, our Self emerges. What we choose in life is not the thing chosen out there, but oneself.

Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate.

We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.

Engage your fans and turn your fans into your community. Realize that we all have failures and can turn those failures into successes through tenacity and through being open to changing.

I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.