God is bigger than every issue you will ever have to face, and you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who strengthens you.

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.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

Things are finally starting to calm down and be the way they're supposed to be. I think things happen for a reason.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.