Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.

Collaboration is an inside-out mindset. It has to start on the inside, with the Heart.

Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!

I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.

Freedom is your birthright!

There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Anyone can have a relationship but if you're dating a woman who's so crazy in bed that if you aren't wearing your Kevlar one night you might never see daylight again... that's exciting.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.