It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay.

If only I lived in a perpetual state of awareness for the infinite daily blessings I'm given.

Active listening requires being fully present and engaged in the moment.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.