In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater’s jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan’s pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.

Satisfaction in life doesn’t jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life.

There’s more to life than love.

Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.

Crying doesn’t make you weak. There’s sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go.

Options abound in our world. You can choose where to stay and how to stay there. Where you are Today is as a result of the option you took yesterday and no doubt where you...

It’s entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.

There will be positive and negative references with everything we do in life. At best we can simply hope that overtime, the positive outweighs the negative.

When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don’t let anyone steal your smile

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

He walked on down the dark, empty street. Suddenly an idea came to him. Immediately, with his whole being, he knew it was true. He had glimpsed a new and improbable explanation for the atomic...

If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy.

Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

Conclude that your are worth achieving beyond your expectations

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it’s not about Christ, it’s not Christianity.

We want to change from featureless caterpillars to become beautiful butterflies, and the change takes place wrapped up in our own little cocoons.

I always liked the unknown. Ironically I familiarized myself with the uncertainty of life. Life can change in any minute of the day. God can turn anything around in a speck of a moment. I...

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

Upon all one million words in the dictionary, my most loved words/phrases are: “no”, “that isn’t for me” & “I will think about it”. Simply because they don’t reveal my weakness and how oblivious I...

Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on!

Even if you’re in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It’s important to keep telling yourself stories.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.

The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what...

Being Happy on Purpose is about making a conscious decision in each moment to move towards happiness. It is not about a perfect life. It is not about having things. It is about creating YOUR...

It’s not a question of whether a person’s been inspired by God, the only question is, has that person realized it, or not?

Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.

As far as you can see then you can go. The question is what do you see and how far do you see yourself. Thoughts are as harmless and dangerous they can be. Any person...

To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.

When we aren’t curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.” -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation...

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

Love sparkles out from those giving and receiving it. It can be seen and felt. Love causes flowers to bloom, providing beauty. it causes hearts to bloom, providing the beauty which is instilled within me...

The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.

Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.

No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.

Anyone can learn how to draw.

I’m a present-day Yoda in stilettos.

Miracles come from love. Miracles come from a seed of hope, a glimpse, a vision of something beautiful that makes our heart sing, something we can fall in love with so much that we are...

There is no secret ingredient

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger’s story…told for the body to forget what it once loved.

Rainbows introduce us to reflectionsof different beautiful possibilitiesso we never forget that pain and griefare not the final options in life.

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn’t right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to celebrate openly our human weakness in exchange for the experience of Christ as...

From I, we, and now us.

There’s two kinds of women–those you write poems about and those you don’t.

I have known many survivors for whom the holocaust is the central them of their lives. They have no other. I have tried to live with tolerance and forgiveness as the theme of my life....