The past has to be viewed as a springboard to the future.

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

Give up the old so God can perform the new in your life.

I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.

I don't regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

Times change, and people change with the times—the wise ones do. Wisdom lies in knowing when to remember and when to forget. Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.

The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.