Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

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

If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.