If your dream dies, dream another one. If things don't work out the way you've planned, God has a better plan for you.

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 could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

Upnext" is your success... but before that, remember "up there" is your God who requires from you to be "upright" to fulfill your destiny! Be "up" and keep going!

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.

Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The biggest commitment you must keep is your commitment to yourself.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.