Death IS an illusion. The body dies. The soul/spirit lives forever. YOU are the sum total of ALL you survey. Who would know you and not know your name? __Kat Kaelin

Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." _Mark Twain (Author)

The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

I've heard, "We live in a world of diminishing returns, when what we give we'll never get back." I say, "What we give returns to us in like-kind 400 times.

We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…” Lone Walk From Panther Creek.

You can't enjoy sipping of success without first enduring failure's fire

History tells us what people do

Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

..I heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great future for him.

My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.