But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been..

If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you... it might not ….

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and, wh….

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

Immerse yourself in the Word of God and what He has to say and get your eyes and your emotions, as hard as that might be, get them off the situation ….

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

All religions do not point to God.

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I was never trained for anything.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be ….

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not….

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..