Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.

People's perceptions of their status are just as important as their actual status.

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?