Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have enough fortitude and they probably wouldnt succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

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

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".