If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results – then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.

An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

Lord Foulgrin: “You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole.” (conspiring...

People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.

Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.

Sometimes the words against a big selfish person have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left...

It’s up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to...

Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the...

But if as you read this book you’re saying to yourself: “I’d rather be miserably married than be alone.” Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt – it’s going...

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

In some aspects losing a child is like a wall, but instead of getting over it, you must carry the wall with you, wherever you go, for as long as you live.The wall is immovable.You...

An eye of an uncluttered mind can find and see through the unshackled window of its compatible heart the door of opportunities left and kept opened by an invisible Almighty.

The characters tell their story – I am merely the tool used to record it

The change is always within our range provided we all collectively decide to open our web and flange

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.

What we like is not necessarily loved always,but what we always love is summarily liked as well.

Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love.

When a man is an upright contender, only real people are bound to be around; but if he is a downright pretender, then fake people surround and always abound to be found.

We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.

The power of HEART is much stronger than the power of MIND to empower our life.

On my website there’s a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: “The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world...

When the mind is distressed, the flow of inspiration will be distorted, intellectual faculties will be affected and unexpected confusion/problem will appear

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands – like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the...

Write on!

Life is too short to follow the speed limit

I’ve been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in particular, Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelites, and the Arts-&-Crafts movement...

To the right person you will BE everything.

Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church’s elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the...

What doesn’t kill me makes me story material.

There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are...

The face of everyone in mine,the oneness with every blade of grass,the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies.The strength with every tree,rooting deep into mother earth,springing...

Just because something doesn’t go as planned, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while. Sometimes you have to fall forward, by learning what doesn’t work, to discover what does. Sometimes you have to get knocked...

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you’ll leave the darkness and enter into the light of...

You don’t feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

You are Destined for Greatness. The enemy seeks to destroy your hopes and dreams. It is Important that you Activate Your Faith. Believe with All Your Heart. Nothing is Impossible for God. You shall Fulfill...

To Be who you want to Be – Don’t Wonder… Just Surrender! -RVM

Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out their way for someone who does nothing for them, doesn’t encourage or support...

Three are the Peaks that everyone must Seek: Achievement, Fulfillment and Enlightenment.-RVM

When people say “Oh wow, you’re so lucky” … I always wonder how they define luck. I can assure you people don’t achieve their dreams because their lucky; they work day and night, with little...

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

Purpose is to touch the life and hearts of others without stepping on others!~

RVM’s Thought for the Day-“Whenever a problem arrives, do three things – Face it, Fight it and Finish it.

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You...

When I feel broken, I cry like the monsoons; and when I glue the pieces back together, I swell and surge like the sea. And then I gradually become tranquil, peaceful, calm…

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have...

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that – an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found,...