I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way

Purpose driven attitude of service is the driving force for daring success.

Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.

Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.