“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.”

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.

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!

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.

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.

I couldn’t escape him, now or ever. He’d always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces i couldn’t control, let alone escape.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

We’re on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens.

Maniacal suicide. -This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.