The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God.

The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God

What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy.

Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.

We live with the scars we choose.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

I open to anything... just about anything.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.