I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms!

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.