“The first rule of truly living is to do the things you’re most afraid of.”

“Mad Hatter: Am I going mad?Alice: Yes, you’re mad, bonkers, off the top of your head…but…I’ll tell you a secret.All the best people are.”

“Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you’re trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.”

“My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.”

“Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.”

“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.”

“Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.”

“Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.”

“excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.”

“How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.Horror tore this world asunder.While inside the bleeding smokeand beyond the shredded weeping fleshwe memorized tales of infinite good.–from The History Lesson”

“Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.”

“In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to be birthed, loose the confines of the ground; stand up in your faith and walk atop the waves…”

“The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.”

“Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong–to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.”

“No matter how much you know, your destiny depends on the Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding you display.”