May the energy of the day always call for celebration.” Barbara Botch

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there

You’re better than this. Better than whatever it is you’re going to do now.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you’ve got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are...

As an observer of human nature, let’s just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.

I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific....

we will seek out the imagery of vice.

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to...

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some...

Any body can laugh in Joy, but the bold ones also smile in pain…knowing that pain is just like a zooming train, that will soon pass by.-RVM

Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is overflowing abundantly.(Successful) Now is the time for you to fill your basket with the fruits of your labor....

The Gift of Life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure . . . some with Pleasure!-RVM

Most of the people I worked with in my old job were pretty cool. We used to go out drinking after lights out and the less pleasant members of staff would be the topic of...

I did not become a runner to lose weight, I did it to escape my computer

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it’s the book of my adulthood too. It’s a book which, in the reading of it, takes me back to...

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That’s who I was pretending to be a minute ago – Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past....

The world is what you make of it

When your position is one of peace, then you’re truly powerful.

People always seemed to be striving towards doing less work. She wonders how they feel when they actually get there, and what they do with their days instead. People get it wrong – it’s not...

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Every comforting word is a command from a man of action…While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words…

Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of...

I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself, you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons.

Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically seem to get it. They share a common goal of love and celebration...

Don’t count me out… I have been built and strengthened by life’s battles. When you think I’m tired; I’m just getting started. When you think I’m dead; that’s when I’m most alive.

It’s how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

No matter who you are, everyone has a shadow; a constant darkness that follows them wherever they go…unless where you go is into the darkness itself, of course, because then you have already been consumed.

Be generous with yourtime and energy. The harderit is to give, the morethe other person deserves it.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

When you believe in yourselfit is easier not to takecriticism, knock-backs anddisappointments personally

You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.

Choose your battles wisely.Unless you have a very highchance of victory, spare yourenergy and walk away

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

True happiness is a state of being,not one of doing or having.

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of...

Don’t ever let rejections or failures put you down and keep you from trying. Believe in yourself, have an unwavering desire to excel, put in your best your efforts, persevere and you will blaze your...

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is...

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.