"People's lives are already cut out for them, and it's decided whether they will be successful or not."

“The essence of style is how you live your life”

“Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.”

“Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.”

“If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'”

Source : FaceBook post by Christine Caine from May 24, 2013

“We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.”

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

Source : Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

“There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.”

Source : Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

“I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.”