Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.

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.

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

Nothing is safe [in Lebanon], as simple as that.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

I wouldn't change my life for the world at the moment.

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.