God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

We become the books we read.

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit

The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.

I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

That's why I get excited over new things, because I didn't have much when I was smaller and my parents could only do so much.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.