“Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life”

“I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go.”

“Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you.”

“Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you.”

“Life teaches us many lessons daily, even from our mishaps, only if we pay attention”

“Ive learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in”

“To have hope is to be happy.”

“With prayer, we can endure the pain.”

“Life ahead is full of endless opportunities.”

“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have...”

“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got ...”

“Sacred soul has indomitable strength.”