“As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima ballerina and delivers the promise of peace, hope, love and joy.”

“Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.”

“As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny.”

“Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.”

“As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginn...”

“Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.”

“All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you.”

“Those who love their lives too much eventually lose it. While those who are ready to sacrifice their lives for others gain it.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”