Don't condemn what you can't comprehend

Give people room to be what God created them to be, don't force them to fit into your own mold

Masters today, were Starters Yesterday, so begin now.

Don’t expect the world to dish you your wishes, go out and serve yourself.

Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life

I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in

Don't build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God

There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you — not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you

Without the rocks, the streams will lose their song

Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past

Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams

The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.