If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.

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.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

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.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

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.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

There is no pleasure in Jalebi (dessert)

Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself 'pro-life.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.