If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

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.

Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

A desert is a place without expectation.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.