Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

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