I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.