I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.