Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

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.

The fools are always the architect of their fall and trouble.

As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

To be honest I inherited a mess. It's a mess. At home and abroad, a mess.

[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.

The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.

It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.