God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.

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 is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

Why all this death?You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

I got fined for talking to myself.

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.