I think we have to find a leader who reflects all of our concerns and not just some of them.

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.

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

Wisdom is the ability to ignore foolishness

There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.

Make your optimism come true!

The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

And happiness has it's own way of taking its sweet time.

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.

You were totally unprepared for her.” “That's for damned sure.

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.