"Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again."

“Spiritual evolution is part of every soul's destiny on Earth, and each soul grows and evolves at a different rate. You are right where you need to be.”

Source : FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Aug 10, 2015

“Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.”

Source : "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.

“When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

“Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.”

“There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.”

“... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.”

“I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.”

“In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.”