The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans