Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

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.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Maybe, now and then, we have to give up a portion of our kingdoms--the things we hold dearest--to find what it is God wants for us.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

Small sacrifices must be made.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.