Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.