Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints.

As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima ballerina – and delivers the promise of peace, hope, love and joy.

The mind can't delete what the heart won't let go of.

Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.

Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.

I have learned that I must push the pause button occasionally and retreat into that private place in my soul where it is only me and God!

Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower.

The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul... and life goes on.

Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.

As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny.

Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.

I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

To see them succeed, to see them improve, that is what matters.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.