I want to do a good job living today.

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly.

My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.

Impatience kills quickly.

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

Lineation can make your break your poems.

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.