If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now.

You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God’s perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know.

Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win.

Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.

I can only change the world by changing myself.

It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. Trust your every step because none of us walk this journey alone.

Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.

Miracles happen when dreamers take action.

Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won’t matter.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

Leadership transitions require us to move out of our comfort zone.

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

I'm not a big fan of TV. It's an unavoidable situation being Ozzy Osbourne, people want you to go on chat shows, and I'm not good at it. I don't feel comfortable doing it.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.