If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.

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.

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.

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.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Reality is like a fruitcake

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

Dracula and LSU Football are at their best after the sun goes down.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.