God has created us to be dependent upon Him, to bring Him our challenges and allow Him to help us with them.

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.

Daily mediate and affirm the Scriptures

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

There is apparently an epidemic of tinnitus in younger people. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears and it can be disabling. Tinnitus is associated with cellphone use.

I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!