Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.

We are not set apart to rule, but chosen and set apart to serve.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.