God never promised us a trouble-free life.

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.

When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven’t said before. You are nothing I haven’t felt before.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.

Working hard may help you maintain, To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.