I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.