Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

Historically, my lack of success; had a direct correlation with me silencing my authenticity. Summon the strength to stand in your truth.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.

The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

A book or an article is of readable quality only by the quantity of the words’ honesty; the rest of its content only makes it a bulky.

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.