Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

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.

How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you.

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

There are as many versions of God as there are people in the world.

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.