Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

Believe in miracles. I have seen so many. They came when every indication would say that Hope was lost. Hope is never lost!

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.