If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.

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.

The prize is as big as the fight in you to get it.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

The essence of cinema is editing.

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.