Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.

Don't resent, fear, or judge the next generation, believe in them.

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

The doc­trine of the Church should be proven, not announced. There­fore show that the Scrip­tures teach these things.

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.