Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

AIDS has come upon us with cruel abandon. It has forced us to confront and deal with the frailty of our being and the reality of death. It has forced us into a realization that we must cherish every moment of the glorious experience of this thing we call life. We are learning to value our own lives of our loved ones as if any moment may be the last.

The most recent studies both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic — something determined at conception.

In life, we have either reasons or results

Nothing adventured, nothing attained