Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong

God planned for our lives to connect. Let's make sure we keep it that way.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Shut off the internal bashing.

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning

When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

I' ve got quite narrow feet and they are size 12. I would sometimes get blisters when I was younger but fortunately I don t have much trouble with my feet nowadays.

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.