Decide to believe in God, who created you. Decide to believe in yourself, that you truly can reach goals—your goals

The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and faith in the hearts of their children.

...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

The written word is what distinguishes us from all other animal life forms on this earth.

No one can share in your sorrow.

Create your own path.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.

I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.