Confidently step into the future, knowing that God has got you this far as a promise that He is able to get you beyond.

There is the pain that made me cry, and then there is the strength that made me stop crying.So I am glad the pain camebecause without it I would not have discovered my strength.

If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.

It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again.

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

Even if you do not want to, One day you will look back through your life...the Question is, what are you going to see? How will your rate and direction of progress make you feel?

Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top.

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.

War is the most evil kind of human approach

The less human you feel, the more human you become.

Each day is God’s gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.