Just because it's true, I say as often as I can in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."

Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

There is no small act of kindness.

I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.