Trade your secrets and become who you are.

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

Dear soulmate, I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

Rumo!" said Rumo. "That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke." "You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly. "No, no." Smyke chuckled.

Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.