Every transaction has its process. Until you submit to it, you will always be living below potential.

Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.

Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work.

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.

Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.

Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up!

Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.

Erase those negative tapes playing in your head. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you forget. He can cast your hurt in forgetfulness.

Though your dream may be birth by you, it has eternal potential to impact lives and generations even after you.

In walking or working your dream, arriving is a bad thing, because arriving makes you do things you said you wouldn’t do when you started.

Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God.

I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.

I kind of do high-low style a lot.

My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.

Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.