Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

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.

Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"