Having everything your way is highly overrated.

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.

Vision is capturing God's assignment

The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

My hatred is diamond-hard.

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

I am loved and accepted exactly how I am, right here and right now.

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.