In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

It is only through faith that you will receive the patience, obedience, and humility to be submissive

Life is a hologram. Even the smallest moment contains eternity within it.

You can't develop the world but you can develop your world because the world will one day fall but your world will always walk with you where ever you go.

I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

I think people believe what they want to believe.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go.

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.