I can honestly tell you that without God I would not be who I am today. He has done such an amazing work in my life and I want everyone to have the same freedom.

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.

While we live let us live.

I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.

As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.