I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.

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.

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.

Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.