You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.

​Tomorrows dreams are important but to make the present meaningful is a far better dream.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

I don't think things like trust should just be handed out. You have to earn that.

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

You are forever alone.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)