Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.