If Jesus is not enough, you've lost.

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I...

Why do we do so few when we can do so much?

I will not add to the world's problem, I will not leave the world the way I met it; I will strive with every breath of my life to live the world a better place than I met it.

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

Honestly, I don't know what I would recommend from this story. Perhaps it is this: if you have the choice to laugh or do nothing, you might as well laugh.

Why don't you read the Good News of God.

A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again.

Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen, Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way.

We don't look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty they contain. The inspiration...

Love doesn't make you a poet

We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

I am a fan of humanity and its all-encompassing beauty.

One day I'll paint the perfect sunset - - if I can only find the words.

Fear is the greatest prison. Hope is the greatest freedom.

Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's...

When God said 'Let there be light', maybe he meant it inside.

All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear.

It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'. Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.

She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

Everyone doesn't have to do everything... People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created...

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only...

... perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never sullied with a definite shape, which never needs to be exposed to a less...

According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three...

POTENTIAL IS A PRICELESS TREASURE, LIKE GOLD. ALL OF US HAVE GOLD HIDDEN WITHIN, BUT WE HAVE TO DIG TO GET IT OUT.