Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

The future is plump with promise.

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.