“When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!”

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, ‘relax. Exhale. Say, ‘I can do this!’ And then do it.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure’s gone we learn what to treasure.

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

If you understand ‘it’ will come, then you’ll understand ‘it’ will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen … infectious.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.