...when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Prayer does work sometimes, but hard work always works.

A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.

The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.