When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

We have to have positive male role models.

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.