For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

Time is the resource from which everything is made

Our willingness to suffer for Him takes away fear and instills the blessed joy.

Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.