If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.

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.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.