“Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!”

“It's difficult to carry the weight of responsibilities. But, it's more difficult to carry the weight of expectations.”

“Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.”

“Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.”

“You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.”

“Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”