Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

The mind work sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.